Render Issues (well sort of...)
Hey Guys,
I have a slight problem. I am currently rendering out a project from AE CS3 on my Macbook Pro. The render has approx 7h20m left but I need to leave to in about 4.5 hours. I will have the ability to set my Mac up at the new location but I need this project to be completed tonight and I won't have enough time if I start the render over at the new location. My question is should I; -Pause the render? -Stop the render with the possibility to continue? Which one will let me unplug my External HD and shut done AE so I can move my Mac? Has anyone ever done this successfully before? Any help on this would be fantastic! Cheers Chris. |
Best thing to do when renders are this big is to render to a sequence of images, typically TIFFS. This has two main advantages: 1) you can interrupt is and restart from where you left off. 2) You can use multiple computers to speed up the process.
You can recreate a QT file from the image sequence by simply re-importing the sequence and adding the soundtrack. This can even be done in QT Pro and the export to a QT file is much quicker. |
Thank-you
Thanks for the reply Paolo. Next time I am rendering a large file I will give the image sequence a shot. I ended up stopping the render and then starting again as per the Adobe Help menu and it worked out fine. It just created two clips that I exported out of FCP.
NB: Just a thought, but I am guessing the way you would use multiple computers for an image sequence render would be to assign a set batch of frames/images to each machine? Just curious. Cheers Chris. |
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Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a shot.
Chris. |
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